Readers’ Forum
Orbiting London
The author points out that the colour photograph of LT Q’ stock on p247 of the May issue should have been credited to Tom Burnham. Ed
Correction to book review
There was an error in quoting the price of North Eastern Railway Engine Sheds in the May issue – the correct price inc. p+p should be £24.95. Also available via www.ner.org.uk/shop
Recollections from a Selside Winter
Steve Leyland’s ‘Railway Observations from a Selside Winter’ make fascinating reading to anybody interested in the history of the Settle–Carlisle line and the people who operated the line 24 hours per day and in all weathers. Several of the men named are still well-remembered in the area. Selside signal box was the one which, famously, was operated entirely by women during World War II. The last survivor of these ladies was Eileen Sunter; Mrs. Sunter’s husband was also a signaller and she herself carried on in this role after the war ended. She passed away in 2010.
With reference to George Horner there were actually two of them – ‘Old’ George and ‘Young’ George; unusually ‘Old’ George followed his son on to the railway and they were both signalmen at Blea Moor with ‘Old’ George being on duty the night that several cars were blown off a train on Ribblehead Viaduct. It would be ‘Young’ George whose beautiful handwriting is to be seen in the train register book depicted. He had gone on to relief from Blea Moor after which he became a clerk, and then station master, at Horton-in-Ribblesdale. When station staff were withdrawn in 1968, Mr. Horner became an AA patrolman for a time but then returned to
